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danbeaudoin.ca website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 November 202623 issues · 59 checks
This review found 23 issues worth fixing on danbeaudoin.ca, 8 of them high impact, across 59 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
80B- #43,134 of 108,868 reviewed websitesbeats 55%
- #28,689 of 61,767 online storesbeats 47%
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Speed
Improve image delivery
15.6 s · 3.0 MB1 image could be 3.0 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 15.6 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 74
74/100Your mobile performance score is 74. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Render-blocking requests
300 ms1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 300 ms.
Chained critical requests
Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.
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Main-thread work: 0.1 s
A phone's processor spends 0.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 4 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 2 ms
2 msYour server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 16.7 s
16.7 sYour largest element takes 16.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Dan Beaudoin”.
Time to Interactive: 16.7 s
16.7 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 16.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 3.7 s
3.7 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Not enough real-visitor data yet
Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.
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Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 0.8 s
0.8 sThe first text or image appears after 0.8 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
1 image over 500 KB
dan-headshot-wide.jpg weighs 3.1 MB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.
1 image far larger than shown
3.0 MB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example dan-headshot-wide.jpg at 5,472 px wide, shown at 358 px. Resized copies would save about 3.0 MB.
1 image in older formats
1 image (3.1 MB) is JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.
Page weight: 3.1 MB in 3 requests
3.1 MBYour homepage downloads 3.1 MB in 3 requests on a phone: images 3.1 MB (1), HTML 3 KiB (1) and stylesheets 2 KiB (1). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit
0.88 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.88 g of CO₂e: 105.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Accessibility
Malformed lists
Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.
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Every image has alt text
All 1 image in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
33 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 34 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 33 passed and 1 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (19 characters)
Your title is only 19 characters: “Home | Dan Beaudoin”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
No XML sitemap
No XML sitemap at https://danbeaudoin.ca/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.
No favicon declared
No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.
18 internal links, 5 external
The homepage links to 18 pages on danbeaudoin.ca and 5 external pages.
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Meta description: 70 characters
Your meta description is 70 characters: “Campaign website for Dan Beaudoin, candidate for Cornwall City Council”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Building a stronger, more connected Cornwall”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://danbeaudoin.ca/.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.
No llms.txt
There is no https://danbeaudoin.ca/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.
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AI answer engines may read the site
Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (406 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
6 pages point its canonical at the homepage
https://danbeaudoin.ca/about, https://danbeaudoin.ca/priorities, https://danbeaudoin.ca/faq, https://danbeaudoin.ca/thoughts, https://danbeaudoin.ca/contact and https://danbeaudoin.ca/thoughts/2026-10-18-labour-endorsement declare the homepage as their canonical URL, which tells Google they are copies of the homepage and keeps them out of search results. A site-wide template setting usually causes this.
5 pages share 2 titles
/, https://danbeaudoin.ca/thoughts and https://danbeaudoin.ca/contact all use the title “Home | Dan Beaudoin”, and 1 other title repeat too. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
2 pages without a meta description
https://danbeaudoin.ca/privacy and https://danbeaudoin.ca/accessibility have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
3 pages share a meta description
https://danbeaudoin.ca/about, https://danbeaudoin.ca/thoughts and https://danbeaudoin.ca/contact use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
2 pages with very little text
https://danbeaudoin.ca/thoughts and https://danbeaudoin.ca/contact have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.
8 internal pages checked
We fetched 8 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
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Linked pages load
All 8 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 8 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
6 small tap targets
6 of 9 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
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No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
No form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
No risk reducer
No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.
About 406 words of copy
The homepage carries about 406 words of visible text.
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Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Contact”.
3 calls to action
The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Get in Touch” and “Contact me”.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 1 email link.
Privacy and tracking
No consent tool detected
No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.
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No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at danbeaudoin.ca, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- Astro
- E-commerce
- Shopify;Shopify Plus
- Hosting
- New Dream Network, LLC
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